WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS?

The United States

Constitution

of

1789

Q:What famous document reigns supreme law of the United

States?Cool!

You get two thumbs up!

A: The PreambleWAY TO GO!

What is the introduction to the United States Constitution called?

Q: Can you recite the PREAMBLE to the United States Constitution?

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Q: What are the first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution called?

A: The Bill of Rights

Q: How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?

A: 10 Amendments

Q: How many amendments are there all together in the U.S. Constitution?

A: 27 Amendments

TRUE OR FALSE

It is okay to sacrifice animals if your religion expects it.

Yelling “Fire” in a movie theatre is a crime.

Throwing pipe bombs at a car dealership to protest the sale of foreign cars is protected by the Right of Assembly.

The collection of signatures can make a difference in passing a law.

To write a lie about someone else can be punishable by law if that person wants to press charges.

First Amendment

Press

Petition

Speech

Assembly

Religion

5 Freedoms

Freedom of Religion

The Establishment Clause• It is the separation of

church and State/federal government

• Government cannot set up a church

• Government cannot show preference to any one religion

• No tax money can be used to help any religious organization

The Free Exercise Clause

• Prohibits the government from infringing on individual rights to practice their religion freely (with exceptions!)

Religion

Assembly/ProtestRequirements: Give notification of time, place, purpose, and manner! Restriction: No violence!

SPEECH Are these actions legal?

Second Amendment

Q: Who is this referring too? All American citizens or only those in a law enforcement capacity?

“ A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ”

**Pocket knives are acceptable with blades no more than 4 inches in length

It is unlawful for any person to discharge or fire any gun, pistol, air rifle, pellet gun, BB gun or any other firearm within the corporate limits of the city except at any properly licensed shooting gallery or upon a pistol range or at a gun club, either of which shall be approved by the chief of police.

Wichita Ordinance

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment

Third Amendment“ No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. ”

Can your locker be searched?

Can you be searched, to include purses, backpacks, clothes pockets?

Does the police have the right to enter your home and search your bedroom?

Is it allowable for your parents to search your room while you are out?

Do you have to allow law enforcement officers in your home?

Fourth AmendmentThis amendment protects American citizens from unlawful search and seizure (the removal of personal property).

1.Probable Cause-sufficient information by which the police can arrest a person who committed the crime

2.Search Warrant-issued by a judge; must have probable cause; specify place to be searched and the persons, or things to be seized (such as a computer, or carpet with possible blood residue).

Fifth Amendment

I plead the fifth! I want my lawyer!

So, did you steal Mrs. Dillard’s

Starbucks coffee from her room?

Due Process

Double Jeopardy

No self-incrimination

Eminent Domain

Sixth Amendment(Criminal proceedings)

Speedy and public trial in the state the crime was committed in.

Able to see who ratted you out!

Right to get a lawyer to defend you or do it yourself.

Know what you are being accused of doing!

Seventh Amendment

Suits against another person involving money or property that must exceed in the amount of $20.00 and can be tried in any court of law in the United States.

Eight AmendmentProhibits excessive bail or fines and

cruel and unusual punishment!

This is how bail works: When federal officials arrest someone suspected of having committed a crime, they are required to take him promptly to a federal magistrate whose job includes the setting of bail. The bail must be “reasonable” in amount, which obviously depends on many factors, such as the seriousness of the crime, the defendant’s ties to the community, and the defendant’s financial condition. If the defendant posts the bail, he promises to appear at trial. If he fails to do so, he forfeits the bail and is then subject to a new criminal charge for having jumped bail.

Example of excessive fine:

Mary and Joe seemed to be the happy couple, but unbeknownst to Mary, Joe was involved in some illegal dealings that he did from their car. Joe was arrested and the car was impounded by the police considering it a site of public endangerment. Mary, the Plaintiff, argued against the permanent impoundment of the vehicle since it was her only means of transportation, and she, of course,was in no way connected to the crime committed by her husband.

Cruel and unusual punishment:Wilkerson v. Utah passed the law that the following tortured methods were illegal (1878)

•public dissecting,

•burning alive

•disembowelment

•quarteringToday's approved methods of execution: Lethal injection, lethal gas(AZ, CA, MD, MO,WY) electrocution (AL, AR, FL, Il, SC, VA, TN, OK, KY), hanging (NH, WA), firing squad (OK, UT)

* 2005 court ruling- it is considered cruel to execute people who are mentally challenged and people under the age of 18.

The number one state for executions is Texas with 441 people. Currently there are 371 people on death row.

Kansas # of executions is a total of 57 people from 1608-1976

There are currently 10 men on "death row" at the El Dorado Correctional Facility.

There are no women at this time-but if there were, they would be held at the Topeka Correctional Facility.

Method of execution: Lethal Injection

Ninth Amendment

Marriage

Travel anywhere

Have a family

To protect rights not specifically listed in the Constitution. (Your pursuit of happiness)

Go to school

Have a job

Tenth amendmentThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.

Concealed Carry law

Age to Marry

CurfewAge to get a driver’s license

Death penalty

Speed limits

State and Property tax

Legalizing Marijuana

19th AMENDMENT(1920)Prohibits the state and federal government from denying any American citizen the right to vote based on their gender.

*Basically, it gave the Women the RIGHT to VOTE!

26th AMENDMENT(1971)Set the standard voting age to 18.It was adopted in response to student activism against the Vietnam War.